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New Hampshire

Sen. Hassan Backs Out of New Hampshire Debate With Republican Challenger

by USNN2020October 9, 2022February 18, 2025

National News

National Guard Lost 7,500 Service Members in Past Year, Could Lose More Amid COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate: Service Officials

by USNN2020October 9, 2022February 21, 2025

Healthcare

HHS Probed EcoHealth Over Alleged ‘Major Fraud’ Against US, Emails Show

by USNN2020October 7, 2022December 28, 2024

Nearly 50 new government defendants have been added to the lawsuit that alleges the government induced censorship of state officials and others on social media. The second amended complaint in the case, Missouri v. Biden, includes six new agencies, bringing the total to 13, and 41 new individual defendants, bringing the total to 54. Altogether, 67 officials or agencies are accused of violating plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights by participating in a “censorship enterprise” through pressuring Big Tech firms like Facebook, Google, and Twitter to take action against users offering alleged misinformation. Evidence backing the claims has been produced in discovery, including exchanges between White House officials and Meta, Facebook’s parent company and messages showing meetings between administration officials and the firms. The new defendants include the FBI; former White House senior COVID-19 adviser Andrew Slavitt; Dana Remus, counsel to President Joe Biden; Elvis Chan, an FBI special agent based in San Francisco; Janell Muhammed, deputy digital director at the Department of Health and Human Services; Allison Snell, an official at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); the State Department; and Mark Robbins, interim executive director of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. One or more of the Big Tech firms that were subpoenaed in the case identified the officials as possibly communicating with them on content moderation relating to “COVID-19 misinformation,” the New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop, the administration’s since-disbanded Disinformation Governance Board, and/or “election security, integrity, outcomes, and/or public confidence in election outcomes (not to include issues of foreign interference or related issues).” Slavitt was named because emails show he was in communication with Facebook regarding the combating of alleged misinformation. The messages show that Facebook was committed to censoring and de-emphasizing posts that were “departing from the government’s messaging on vaccines,” plaintiffs said. Slavitt also called for Twitter to ban Alex Berenson, an independent journalist, previously released messages show. Muhammed, meanwhile, was in touch with Facebook to ask the company to take down pages and accounts that were allegedly misrepresenting themselves as representing the government. “Absolutely,” one of the Facebook employees responded. Other discovery suggests the FDA “has participated in federally-induced censorship of private speech on social media about questions of vaccine safety and efficacy, among other subjects,” plaintiffs said. The agencies that were added to the case did not respond to requests for comment. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee overseeing the case, recently ordered defendants named in earlier complaints to comply with demands, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top medical adviser to Biden. The new documents do not include any more information from Fauci or the White House press secretary’s office.

National News

47 New Biden Administration Defendants Named in Government–Big Tech Censorship Lawsuit

by USNN2020October 7, 2022December 28, 2024

National News

US Buys $290 Million Worth of Drugs in Preparation for Nuclear Emergencies

by USNN2020October 7, 2022August 26, 2024

Economy

Inflation Is Eroding American Workers’ Wages: Federal Reserve

by USNN2020October 7, 2022September 22, 2023

National News

Election Software CEO Arrested Over Data Theft, Storing Data on Servers in China

by USNN2020October 6, 2022February 18, 2025

Immigration

Federal Appeals Court Rules That DACA Program Is Illegal, Orders Review of Biden’s Final Rule

by USNN2020October 6, 2022January 21, 2025

National News

John Durham Can’t Discuss Trump Dossier Source’s Alleged Links to Russian Intelligence at Trial: Judge

by USNN2020October 5, 2022June 30, 2024

National News

Supreme Court Directs Department of Justice to Respond to Trump Request

by USNN2020October 5, 2022December 20, 2024

Economy

OPEC+ Agrees to Sharply Cut Oil Output in Blow to Biden

by USNN2020October 5, 2022February 7, 2024

National News

US Debt Tops $31 Trillion for First Time Ever on Biden Admin Spending Spree

by USNN2020October 5, 2022January 21, 2025

NATIONAL NEWS

Facebook Fact-Checker Funded by Chinese Money Through TikTok

By Petr Svab While Facebook portrays its army of fact-checkers as independent, the money behind at least one carries a distinct taint. One such fact-checker, Lead Stories, is ...

US Government, States Sue Facebook for ‘Predatory’ Conduct

By The Associated Press WASHINGTON—Federal regulators on Wednesday sued to force a breakup of Facebook as 48 states and districts accused the company in a separate lawsuit of abusing its market ...

Georgia County Says It Couldn’t ‘Duplicate’ Election Results; Secretary of State’s Office Investigating

By Jack Phillips Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said on Dec. 9 his office is investigating Coffee County’s handling of an election recount after officials there said they ...

US Sanctions Chinese Official Over Role in Persecuting Spiritual Practice Falun Gong

By Cathy He and Eva Hu The Donald Trump administration on Dec. 10 sanctioned a Chinese official for his involvement in “gross human rights violations” against Falun Gong practitioners—a ...

Rudy Giuliani: Georgia House Needs ‘Courage to React’ to Election Fraud

By Jack Phillips President Donald Trump’s legal team again lobbied the GOP-controlled Georgia House of Representatives to take further action in light of allegations of election ...

Rep. Devin Nunes Suggests Hunter Biden Special Counsel

By Jack Phillips Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said he will work with colleagues on an investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings, namely with Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked foreign ...

‘Bought by Beijing’: Pompeo Warns of China’s Threats to US Colleges

By Cathy He American colleges are becoming “hooked on Chinese Communist Party cash,” while Beijing works to siphon cutting-edge U.S. research to China, U.S. Secretary ...

Infographic: What Happened in Atlanta on Election Night

By Petr Svab On the night of Nov. 3, tens of thousands of absentee ballots for Fulton County, Georgia, were counted at the State Farm Arena’s vote-tabulation center in Atlanta. ...

Trump Should Demand Special Counsel to Investigate Election Fraud

By Jack Phillips About two-dozen House Republicans are calling on President Donald Trump to direct Attorney General William Barr to appoint a special counsel to investigate election ...

US Attorney’s Office in Delaware Is Investigating Hunter Biden’s Taxes

By Jack Phillips Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, said Wednesday he is being investigated by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Delaware. “I ...

YouTube to Delete Content Alleging Presidential Election Fraud

By Jack Phillips YouTube announced that from Dec. 9 it will block and remove content that contains statements “alleging widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome ...

This Election Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test

By Michael Walsh Commentary Let’s start with this inconvenient and overriding truth about the 2020 election: there is no such thing as a Joe Biden fan. ...